Marc Evan Aupiais

Tick Tock. The clock did stop.Cause. Effect. Until the start.A big bang, or a tiny grain of sand.It matters not.

Go far enough back, there must always be a cause.Something, a start, to continue to, dominoes, cause and effect.But take infinity, call it X.What happened before X.What was the first cause of effect.For something must have caused it too,But nothing can have, there must be a first, And this is it.

What is logic? Cause and effect.To be logical, the foundation must be firm, it must be sound,And that foundation must cause an effect, the specific effect, it must follow.

And yet, the entire universe is a non sequitur. It does not follow.And neither science: cause and effect, can explain an effect without a cause,And nor can magic: for magic is mechanical in its thinking, the precursor to science, it believed that one act, whether ritual or effective, certainly would cause another.

And whether a big bang, steady state, multiverse, or ever repeating loop, something must have brought it into being. A first knock upon the movement, the cause and effect we call time, for without energy, entropy would break the clock, even one in a circular loop. Without some outside cause for its effect, some source, all movement would stop.

What else is left? For time is cause and effect?But then something not bound by time, must have had an effect. For, what caused X, what caused the first slight or great movement of time? The clock stops, for by its logic we know not its cause, the cause of logic, or time, of before and after, of cause and effect.

Either that, or logic, the patterns we observe as absolute, is neither universal, nor much but a precursor, like magic.For the very first cause, logically, could not be an effect.

I find the criticism of both Jordan B Peterson and Slavoj Zizek to be unwarranted.

They had a good and enlightening discussion that benefitted everyone. I suspect the alleged former fans didn't know much of either before losing their appreciation of either figure.

Peterson has deep and systematic understanding of communism.

Communism is also not limited to the communist manifesto, which he had read before, and read again in detail before debating Zizek.

Marx wrote a lot more than it, and most of what he wrote, Peterson has a good grasp of.

Zizek prefers works of Marx other than the communist manifesto. Even when I studied him in University, he was not a true communist. He likes some of Marx, and those parts he discusses are actually parts Jordan Peterson has a grasp of, while disagreeing.

I am very impressed with Jordan Peterson's performance in the debate with Slavoj Zizek, and think those who are now attacking him or Zizek over the debate need to re-evaluate their thinking and their fickleness. Displaying fickleness isn't attractive as a trait.

Like those who recently felt the need to disown Stefan Molyneux and claimed his positions had changed (untrue), the rush of new former Jordan B Peterson fans leave me with the impression they had never read a word he has written, nor watched his lectures at all. Virtue signalling.

I am seeing posts from people who are upset billionaires are donating to restore the incalculable treasure that is Notre Dame. It shows both a complete ignorance of the laws of economics and of there being more to life than food, drink and shelter.

Firstly, this is not money the billionaires were going to donate to charity, they are likely giving up a jet or superyacht to donate. Many of the said billionaires and the like do also donate to charity.

But as study after study has found, throwing money at the poor doesn't solve their poverty, and the same goes for poor nations. Visit a lottery winner five years down the line, and they are as poor as the day they bought the ticket. Visit a hobo who was given 100 000 dollars as part of a documentary experiment, and he has spent it all and is on the street again.

What a lot of legal professionals might not yet understand is that tertiary industries like ours rely heavily on the primary and secondary sectors of the economy to survive. The primary sector is on life support and every day more likely to collapse. The secondary sector of the economy relies upon the primary sector of the economy to survive. The tertiary sector relies on both.

Over the last few years, running a law firm has become more expensive, and, as an industry, our services have often become more of a grudge purchase for clients, a necessary luxury fewer can afford. Many lawyers don't increase their fees with inflation anymore, knowing their clients just can't afford to pay more. But the collapse of each sector becomes more likely as each month fades into the next.

Published on 15 Dec 2018South African Attorney, Marc Evan Aupiais, guides you through some of the basic contact and status information that attorneys like to gain from their clients, as well as why the various details matter and some of what can affect the outcome of a legal matter. Nothing in this video should be relied upon as legal advice, for that consult your attorney at their offices, revealing all the nuances of your matter to them.

I did the https://www.understandmyself.com/ scientific big five personality test for about $ 9.95. It was developed in the lab of Jordan B. Peterson, and unlike the popular Myers-Briggs personality test, it actually has a strong scientific basis, as do the very extensive explanations it will give you for your personality. See what it said of me, and how I view the things it said, and possibly take the test yourself and let me know how you did in the comments.

Published on 6 Feb 2019South African attorney, Marc Evan Aupiais, discusses prescription of debts, and the effect this can have on legal matters, as well as things an attorney needs to bear in mind during interview in relation to prescription. Nothing in this video should be relied upon as legal advice, for that consult your attorney at their offices, revealing all the nuances of your matter to them.

Published on 1 Jan 2019South African attorney, Marc Evan Aupiais, details some practical aspects of legal strategy, and the attorney-client relationship. Nothing in this video should be relied upon as legal advice, for that consult your attorney at their offices, revealing all the nuances of your matter to them.

Published on 27 Dec 2018This video, depending on response, will be the first in a series of videos discussing what will be going through an attorney's mind during a client consultation, such as the sort of topics and questions an attorney possibly looks at in order to effectively do their job. Nothing in this video should be relied upon as legal advice, for that consult your attorney at their offices, revealing all the nuances of your matter to them. - Marc Evan Aupiais.

Published on 18 Dec 2018South African Attorney, Marc Evan Aupiais, discusses prevention of terrorism funding and money laundering requirements law firms and other accounting institutions have to adhere to. Nothing in this video should be relied upon as legal advice, for that consult your attorney at their offices, revealing all the nuances of your matter to them.

Published on 13 Dec 2018I recently did an anonymous internet poll on whether or not people would leave South Africa, and whether they would fight in a civil war. The results confirmed something that has seemed to be becoming more and more clear: if the government proceeds with taking property rights away from whites, a war is likely, much more likely than all whites fleeing. Corrections: I referred to a decision being upheld up to the highest levels by South African courts. I meant to say at the highest level, as a specific court took a different position prior to that being appealed successfully. The reference to one water purification plant still being operational in Johannesburg is incorrect, it is one water purification plant still operation in its whole region of Gauteng, in which Johannesburg is situate, not just Johannesburg.

Published on 23 Sep 2018South Africa Attorney, Marc Evan Aupiais, goes through some nuances of the decision, looks at circumstances where people can still be arrested, and discusses the possibility that the decision constitutes judicial overreach. Nothing in this video should be relied upon as legal advice, for that consult your attorney at their offices, revealing all the nuances of your matter to them.

Published on 5 Jul 2018As a one third tax on petrol and petroleum products bites South Africans where it hurts, Marc Evan Aupiais points out that the taxes on fuel don't actually get put to such use as to improve the lot of South Africans.

Published on 5 Jul 2018Much of the problem with tender fraud is with tenders themselves, where projects are judged on paper, rather than on the track record of the person, natural or juristic, doing the actual job.

Published on 1 Jul 2018With the current economy and the minimum wage for domestic workers. Most risk losing their jobs. National minimum wage may cost one to six million South Africans their jobs in coming months.

Marc Evan Aupiais discusses recent reports in media that South Africa's RAF is wastefully renting office furniture at an exhorbitant rate, despite the levies to fund the bankrupt government fund biting into motorists' and consumers' pockets in a bad economic climate.